A segregated community and high concentrations of poverty: Those are just some of the findings in a newly released report from the Metro Housing Coalition.

A robust anti-poverty strategy doesn't skirt housing and school segregation, but instead musters the courage to deal with it. Mike Koprowski is executive director of Opportunity Dallas. He wrote ...

Segregation After four decades of fair housing, segregation still rules MKE streets. After years of dealing with the violence and poverty that surrounded her and her family, Sytoria finally moved ...

Dallas is a city divided by bad housing policies. By intent or default, city policies encourage affordable housing in southern Dallas and market-rate housing in much of the rest of the city. That ...

The housing market in Puget Sound is difficult enough without facing more complications like poverty. In Snohomish County, people with a household income of $44,000 or less can now get access to ...

The project, run by HUD in 1994, offered 4,600 families in high-poverty neighborhoods in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City public housing vouchers that they could only use ...

For much of the last century, the “American dream” has centered on homeownership by married, white families. Alongside explicitly racist policies like racial segregation enforced by redlining, banks ...

KEY POINTS: One of the key pathways through which housing affects health is residential segregation by income and race. Several housing policies attempt to address residential segregation.

But of course, this is all easier said than done when you’re buried in debt or stuck in a cycle of poverty. READ: How Your Employer Can Help You Build Emergency Savings.

According the Metro Housing Coalition's State of Housing Report, 24 percent of Louisville families with children live in poverty. Fourteen percent of workers can't afford a two-bedroom apartment.